In June 1947, the American vessel Silver Star pulled alongside the strangely silent Dutch merchant ship Ourang Medan. Nothing moved aboard the Dutch ship, and hails went unanswered. All was quiet.

If the Ourang Medan existed, it's certainly possible the crew tried to maintain a low profile. It's also conceivable a gas explosion was embellished by Scherli and others.

The SS Ourang Medan is a ghost ship some say is merely legend. Its crew was found dead on board before the ship exploded and sank into the sea. The ship left behind a mystery that is yet to be solved.

In the 1940s, a distress call was sent out from a ship in the Strait of Malacca: “All officers, including the captain, are dead… I am dying.” When rescuers found the SS Ourang Medan ...

The dutch SS Ourang Medan went missing in 1948 while sailing the Strait of Malacca - the same area where Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared in 2014. Jump directly to the content.

Spoiler Warning:. Obviously, this Man of Medan story summary is, you know, going to go through the entire plot of the game, spoiling all of the big story moments, so this your chance to turn away ...

Man of Medan is set almost entirely at sea on an enormous, abandoned boat. Loosely based on the real-life mystery of the OSS Ourang Medan, which became a shipwreck in the late 1940s after its ...

There’s one other example, however, that rightly should take its place alongside these two titans: The Ourang Medan. Alleged to have been discovered in 1947 with all its crew killed under ...